28. XII. 1920

Comrade Gorbunov!

Today I found the attached document 54 on my desk.

I don't know who it's from.

I am very interested in this matter. I feel quite ill from insomnia and therefore ask you to keep watch over this business, verify its implementation, and write (if necessary) additionally in my name.

Please speak with the corresponding member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy, show him this letter, discuss what measures of assistance are possible and necessary (perhaps gather the Petrograd delegates to the VIII Congress while they are here, and speak with them: you must do this without fail; — there may be other measures to clarify what is lacking and to find the means to help) and do everything you can to assist.

With comradely greetings,
Lenin

First published in 1945
in Leninsky sbornik XXXV

Printed from the manuscript